Serena Williams sweeps aside Lisa Pigato 6-3 6-2 in the 1st round in Romagna Open on Monday after playing a superlative match to clash against Katerina Siniakova in the 2nd round. The match lasted 1 hour and 8 minutes.
The American added to her prize money € 806 after conquering this match. She has won already € 2,963 after this win. If she wins the next match, Williams will add € 1,714 to her earnings to get in total € 4,677 in total.
Williams was elated about the outcome of the contest. She commented:
“It’s amazing to have this trophy in my hands for the 10th time. It’s something impossible to imagine but it happened so I’m super happy and can’t thank my team enough.”
Stats: aces, double faults, breaks, winners
1h:08
At the end of the match, Williams scored 59 points vs. Pigato’s 33.
Williams
Williams served very well to win 75% of the points (21/28) behind her first serve, and she won 82% points (14/17) on her second serve. The American won this match even if she was not so effective in converting her break points as she converted only 44% (4/9) of the procured opportunities.
Pigato
On the other side, The Italian was exceptional in converting the only break point that she converted. Nevertheless, that was not enough to win the contest.
After this contest, the head to head between Williams and Pigato is 1-0 for Serena.
Draw and next match H2H: Serena Williams vs. Katerina Siniakova – stats
Williams will take on Siniakova in the 2nd round.
There is no head to head record between Serena Williams and Katerina Siniakova since this will be the first time that they will clash against each other in the main tour.
Live score progression and stats
Siniakova was quite dominant at the beginning of the set to break Williams in the 1st game (1-0). Nevertheless, Serena managed to stage a great comeback to break Lisa in the 2nd (1-1) and in the 4th (3-1) game before winning the set (6-3).
It is worth noting that a pivotal stage of the set was when the American won 4 consecutive games in the 1st set so as to change the score from 0-1 to 4-1.
Serena converted 66% of her break points (2/3). She had 3 break points opportunities in the 2nd (0-1 0-40) and the 4th game (2-1 0-40 and 15-40). On the other side, Lisa was clinical in converting the only break point that she conquered in the 1st game (0-0 40-A).
They played 47 points. The American was the winner of the set after clinching 13 points more than the Italian (30-17). Serena conceded 8 points on serve (19-8). on the other side of the court, the Italian conceded 11 points on serve (9-11).
Williams in this set played a much better tennis than Pigato and without too much hustling she won 6-2 after breaking the Italian in the 3rd (2-1) and in the 5th (4-1) game.
An important stage of this set was when Williams won 5 consecutive games in the 2nd set to change the score from 0-1 to 5-1.
The American converted 33% of her break points (2/6). She had 6 break points opportunities in the 1st (0-0 15-40 and 30-40), the 3rd (1-1 40-A and 40-A) and the 4th game (3-1 0-40 and 15-40). On the other side, Williams didn’t concede a single break point during this set.
They contested 45 points. The American conquered the set after winning 13 more points than Lisa (29-16). Serena was extremely solid on serve to concede just 2 points (16-2). On the other side, Lisa conceded 13 points on serve (14-13).
Tennis Scores in Romagna Open
- Serena WilliamsWilliams – Lisa PigatoPigato (6-3 6-2) – Stats and score progression
- Katerina SiniakovaSiniakova – Clara TausonTauson (6-1 6-3) – Stats and score progression
- Sloane StephensStephens – Caty McNallyMcNally (7-64 6-4) – Stats and score progression
- Martina Di GiuseppeDi Giuseppe – Nao HibinoHibino (7-5 7-65) – Stats and score progression
- Anna SchmiedlovaSchmiedlova – Venus WilliamsWilliams (5-7 6-2 6-2) – Stats and score progression
- Caroline GarciaGarcia – Paula OrmaecheaOrmaechea (6-4 6-4) – Stats and score progression
- Camila GiorgiGiorgi – Christina MchaleMchale (6-74 6-4 6-4) – Stats and score progression
- Sara Sorribes TormoSorribes Tormo – Bernarda PeraPera (6-4 6-2) – Stats and score progression
- Qiang WangWang – Misaki DoiDoi (6-2 5-7 6-1) – Stats and score progression
- Amanda AnisimovaAnisimova – Jasmine PaoliniPaolini (6-2 6-1) – Stats and score progression
- Daria KasatkinaKasatkina – Su-Wei HsiehHsieh (6-4 6-3) – Stats and score progression
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